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032-003369769
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Add MS 27076
Title:
Collection of kabbalistic works
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
68 folios
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Languages:
Hebrew
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1500
End Date:
1599
Date Range:
1500-1599
Era:
CE
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Names:
Abraham ben Alexander, of Cologne, fl 13th century
Abraham ben Alexander, of Cologne, fl 13th century
Azriel, 1100-1199
Azriel, 1100-1199
Camillo Jaghel
Fra Gir. Durazzano
Giuseppe Almanzi
Mikha᾿el Elisha῾ da Modena
Recanati, Menahem ben Benjamin, 1200-1399
Recanati, Menahem ben Benjamin, 1200-1399
Renatto da Modena
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Add MS 27076

Collection of kabbalistic works

Contents

Kabbalistic collectaneum.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 2r-52v
Title: Ṭaʻame ha-mitsṿot
Title: טעמי המצות
Filiation: Cf. the contents of Add MS 16407, George Margoliouth, Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: British Museum, 1899-1935; vols I-III repr. 1965); IV, Introduction, Indexes, ed. by Jacob Leveen (London: British Museum, 1977), no. 743., V.
Author: Recanati, Menahem ben Benjamin, active 13th century-14th century רקנטי, מנחם בן בנימין

References

[Mitsvot_Rekanati_1581]
ff. 53r-56v
Title: Perush birkat ha-mazon
Title: פרוש ברכת המזון
Author: Recanati, Menahem ben Benjamin, active 13th century-14th century רקנטי, מנחם בן בנימין

Based on Midrash Rut of Zohar Ḥadash.

Filiation: Cf. the contents of [BL] Add MS 16407, George Margoliouth, Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: British Museum, 1899-1935; vols I-III repr. 1965); IV, Introduction, Indexes, ed. by Jacob Leveen (London: British Museum, 1977), no. 743., VI.
ff. 57r-63r
Title: Keter shem ṭov
Title: כתר שם טוב
Author: Abraham ben Alexander, of Cologne, active 13th century אברהם בן אלכסנדר, מקלן

The manuscript has a number of marginal notes in the original hand.

References

[Ginze_hokhmat_kabbalah_1853] IV
[Keter_Shem_Tov_1810]
ff. 63v-68v
Title: Shaʻar ha-sho᾿el
Title: שער השואל
Author: Azriel, of Gerona, active 13th century עזריאל בן שלמה, מגרונה

A commentary on the ten sefirot.

Filiation: Cf. other manuscripts of the same treatise, e.g., Firenze - Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana Plut. 44.14, [Laurentiana_1757] II and Frankfurt a. M. Universitätsbibliothek Oct. 101, [Prijs_1982] , Milan Bern. 53, [Ambrosiana_1933] 53.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 16th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 68 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 220 × 140 mm.
Dimensions (written): 160 × 100 mm.
Foliation:

68 folios (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 4 at the end).

Collation

Quires of 12 to 16 leaves each (irregular). No catchwords.

Condition

Stained.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 25 31

Written lines: 25 31

30 lines to a page in folios 2-62, and 25-31 lines in folios 63-68.

Folios 55v-56v left blank.

Visible hard-point ruling.

Initial words in larger square characters.

Hand(s)

Italian semi-cursive and cursive scripts of the 16th century.

ff. 63r-68v
due to a different, but contemporary hand (Italian cursive script).

Additions:

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

Spine: 'Ta'ame Ham-Mitsvoth. Etc. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Additional 27,076.'

History

Origin: 1500-1599 16th century Italy (Modena?)

Provenance and Acquisition

Mikha᾿el Elisha῾ da Modena: inscribed, folio 2r.

Renatto da Modena: inscribed with his name, 1626 (folio 68v); see William Popper, The Censorship of Hebrew Books (New York: KTAV Publishing House, 1969), appendix § 132-133.

Fra Gir. Durazzano, active in 1640-41 in Modena-Reggio: inscribed with his name, 1641 (folio 68v); see William Popper, The Censorship of Hebrew Books (New York: KTAV Publishing House, 1969), appendix § 89.

Camillo Jaghel: inscribed with his name, 1613 (folio 68v); see William Popper, The Censorship of Hebrew Books (New York: KTAV Publishing House, 1969), appendix § 50-56.

Giuseppe Almanzi (b. 1801, d. 1860), bibliophile; his manuscript no. 181: his library including 322 medieval Hebrew manuscripts were purchased en bloc by the British Museum in October 1865 for £1,000 through Asher & Co., Berlin dealer to the British Museum (see David Paisey, 'Adolphus Asher (1800-1853): Berlin bookseller, anglophile and friend to Panizzi', in The British Library Journal, 23 [1997], 131-153): inscribed, back flyleaf (ii)v.

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on Margoliouth, G.: Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, London 1965.

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Bibliography

    George Margoliouth, Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: British Museum, 1899-1935; vols I-III repr. 1965); IV, Introduction, Indexes, ed. by Jacob Leveen (London: British Museum, 1977), no. 739.

Bibliography

    [BL] BL = British Library shelfmark
    [Ginze_hokhmat_kabbalah_1853] Abraham ben Samuel Abulafia approximately 1292, Adolph Jellinek ed, of Cologne Abraham ben Alexander, and Rav Ḥamai. 'Ginze Ḥokhmat Ha-Ḳabalah : Maḥberet Rishonah Kolelet Masekhet Atsilut ; Sefer Ha-ʿIyun Ha-Meyuḥas Le-R. Ḥamai Gaʾon ; Igeret R. Avraham Abulafiya Neged Ha-Rashba ; Keter Shem Ṭov Le-R. Avraham de-Ḳolonya, Talmid Ha-Roḳeaḥ / Me-et Aharon Yelineḳ.'Leipzig, 1853.
    [Keter_Shem_Tov_1810] Alexander, of Cologne Abraham ben. 'Sefer Keter Shem Ṭoṿ.'אמשטרדם, תקע, Amsterdam, 1810.
    [Laurentiana_1757] Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana (FLORENCE). 'Bibliothecae Ebraicae Graecae Florentinae, Sive Bibliothecae Mediceo-Laurentianae Catalogus Ab Antonio Maria Biscionio ... Digestus Atque Editus, Etc. (Codices Hebraici MS. Qui in Bibliotheca Palatina Adservantur. Ex Recesione ... Stephani Evodii Assemani.) [Edited by A. P. Giulianelli.]'. Florentiae, 1757.
    [Ambrosiana_1933] Biblioteca ambrosiana. 'Codices Hebraici Bybliothecae Ambrosianae. Descripti a Carolo Bernheimer.'Florentiae, 1933.

Funding of Cataloguing

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